In Plane Sight is James's submission for a school assignment wherein the students had to make movies that "included the construction of a paper airplane." The premise is that a boring guy is talking for a really long time, and as he talks, the guys listening to him pass around a piece of paper and fold it in seemingly random ways that culminate in the accidental construction of a paper airplne that the boring guy proclaims to be brilliant. Then boring guy somehow becomes a great success off this design. This movie is the complete opposite of Robert's Earth vs. the Paper Airplanes, in that Earth vs. the Paper Airplanes was entertaining, and this is boring. For some reason, though, they both star Mike Lydon.

I cannot proceed with this review without pointing out how badly the audio sucks. Every time the angle switches, Mike Lydon's voice changes dramatically, as he clearly had no control over the variation of his speech patterns when he was standing and reciting memorized high-pitched lines or undoubtedly sitting and slowly reading the rest, his voice now four octaves lower. This audio would've matched better if seven different people from each of the seven different continents of the Earth each took turns reading single words off the page, but Dastolis probably didn't give a shit, since this was a school assignment. Which also explains the typos in the newspaper headlines and end credits. I wouldn't be surprised if Dastolis took less time editing this movie than it took me to watch it.

Now, you'd think that a movie where nothing happens except for a boring guy talking would be the least amusing thing ever. But oddly enough, I find it hilarious. Mainly because a paper airplane being formed out of bored guys randomly folding a piece of paper and passing it along for no reason is the most preposterous thing ever conceived. I had less trouble buying the paper airplane invasion in Robert's movie. One guy just folds a piece of paper and gives it to another guy? Then this guy folds it a different way and passes it to another guy? Why is that happening? I'm assuming paper airplanes don't exist in this universe, and that's what makes the end result so brilliant in the eyes of Mike Lydon. Another thing that makes me laugh is the fact that Evan Blair takes 30 fucking seconds to fold a piece of paper in half. Was this the best take they had of this showboat? Pat DeNicola, incidentally, achieves brilliance in the role of a sleepy guy who holds up a paper airplane. He would go on to play equally challenging roles in future Dastoli Digital shorts.

Here is what the Dastolis have to say about In Plane Sight:

JAMES:

"I told Donny before we shot that we'd give him a director credit, basically because I didn't care about In Plane Sight. He makes for a good scapegoat for this unwatchable film. I was the one who really directed it. I say I because Robert was taking a shit when we had to shoot, so we left without him."

ROBERT:

"In Plane Sight was the only Dastoli Digital movie whose set I was never on (there were individual shoots--Smiert Spionam and Under the Gun come to mind--for other movies that I couldn't be at, but those were just individual scenes). This was because I was in the bathroom for most of the time and I didn't care as much because it was really supposed to be James, Donny, and Pat's project. Needless to say, that will never happen again."

I didn't know the Dastolis for very long before I first heard the "Robert taking a shit during the shooting of In Plane Sight" story. They just love to tell it, I guess.